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Sutton knows what it's like. While she wasn't trafficked as a child, she was forced into that life.

"When I tried to leave, he hit me in my face with the bottom of a gun and told me I wasn't going anywhere. As a matter of fact, I was about to start going to work," Sutton said.

Work meant seeing 15 to 20 guys a day. It's a lifestyle that, no matter how difficult, isn't always easy to leave behind.

"If we get her at 3 o'clock in the morning, I'm not going to leave her until she's in bed," said Renee Murrell, a victim specialist for the FBI Baltimore Division.

Murrell said trust is a tall hill to climb.

"That first week or two is labor intensive, and, whether she likes it or not, I'm there just to make her understand that, 'I'm not going to leave you,'" Murrell said.

There are two places across Maryland that offers residential services to survivors of child sex trafficking, and those who work at the locations said breaking down the initial wall of trust can be a challenge.

Sometimes it starts with asking the girls, or boys in some cases, to describe their best and worst days, using toys as props and sand as a canvas. Completed displays show contrast: a coffin and handcuffs on one side, on the other, a home and a job as a nurse.

The idea is to let them express themselves without speaking. For example, there's a clay figure molded without a mouth. As one therapist said, the girl didn't feel she had a voice.

In a classroom, the victims get individual instruction as part of a long and sometimes difficult road to normalcy, and it's not always one they want to travel.

Asked how often they see some of the same girls they helped back out on the street weeks later, Murrell said: "Often, sometimes the very next week, a couple of days."

Even when they escape that cycle, reminders are everywhere.

"A cologne that someone has on will be the cologne that someone wore when you were raped, and you'll go right back to where you'll think about it. You will never forget," Sutton said.

For Sutton, she will never forget, but she will also never falter.

"You don't have to be a victim, you don't have to victimize yourself. You're now a survivor," Sutton said.

It's a feeling portrayed in a blanket that child survivors stitched together. Sewn into it are sayings like, "Part of growing up is moving on from the past."

But it's maybe summed up best by artwork from another young survivor that says, "Don't cry over the past. It's gone. Don't stress about the future. It hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful."